Originally Posted by downquark1

I am not attacking the beliefs, I am attacking the church. Islam is a system of beliefs (that are in the public domain) with no single authority or single "bank account", if there is a privately owned mosque with radical preachers you could protest that without protesting the teachings of Islam as a whole. You can protest the actions of some catholic priests without being anti-catholic.

The teachings of scientology are copyrighted and you must spend a huge amount of money and assessed before you are given access to the higher teachings. They also claim to be an alternative to professional psychiatry and that you need not leave your previous religion to join.

They are a church when it suits them, a business when it suits them, and a pseudo-science when it suits them.